Tuttle issued a statement in which he said, “The Republican nominee for president has no government experience and has done nothing in his career to demonstrate that he is competent to be president.”

He accused Trump of making inaccurate statements and insulting women, minorities and even the family of a war hero, and said the candidate is “unqualified and unfit to be president.”

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Because of these issues, Tuttle said, he will do something he has never done before.

“I have never voted for a Democrat but I will vote for Secretary Clinton,” Tuttle said.

Tuttle is by no means the first or the only prominent Republican to pull their support from the GOP nominee.

Frank Lavin, who was President Reagan’s political director from 1987 to 1989 and has voted Republican for 40 years, wrote, “It might not be entirely clear that Hillary Clinton deserves to win the presidency, but it is thunderingly clear that Donald Trump deserves to lose.”

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Richard Armitage, a member of both the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations, said prior to the Republican National Convention that if Trump were nominated he would vote for Hillary Clinton.

“He doesn’t appear to be a Republican. He doesn’t appear to want to learn about the issues. So I’m going to vote for Mrs. Clinton,” Armitage said.